Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

If that 1 earner lost their job, they are SOL

No. I can’t wait to go back to work and am more thankful than ever that we have two incomes now that the economy is headed in a direction where anything can happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

This seems stupidly obvious.

All the SAHMs I know have cracked under the pressure of having school age kids home all day every day without any respite. No school. No classes on Saturday. A lot of alcohol themed posts on social media.

It is clearly harder to work and perform childcare simultaneously. This isn’t even a philosophical matter, there are simply only so many hours in a day.

Anonymous wrote:If it truly is a choice, maybe.

In many cases, it would be laid off, can't find work, making the best of it by saving on daycare/after care and any household task outsourcing.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

This seems stupidly obvious.

All the SAHMs I know have cracked under the pressure of having school age kids home all day every day without any respite. No school. No classes on Saturday. A lot of alcohol themed posts on social media.

Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

This seems stupidly obvious.

Given that my husband got furloughed while my job is secure, LOL no.

Hell no. I can not wait to get back to work. I love the hell out of my kids but I’m a better mom when we are away from each other during the day.

Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

Nope, better to have two retirement accounts take a huge hit than only one. Better to have 1/2 potential job losses than 1/1.

In the event of two job losses? Two unemployment claims vs. one.

Anonymous wrote:Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

But it’s more devastating if they lost the one income

Depends on the age of the kids.

But overall, yes. I think people are going to rethink jobs/childcare. And also housing.

Households with a stay-at-home parent have fared the best during these closures; they already have the infrastructure in place for one designated adult to watch and set up home school for the children while the other parent continues work uninterrupted AND their expenses were already adjusted to one income.

No I can’t wait to go back to work!!

I think the opposite. I think many moms will continue to be in the workplace and telecommute. I think nannies will be highly prized to come home and take care of the kids. Most UMC people will learn that they need to work through similar quarantines and they will offer room and board to caregivers. I am thinking something similar to the positions of governesses...that used to be the norm in European aristocracy.

Incidentally, multi-generational households (grandparents, parents, kids) and multi-generational-branched households (grandparents, parents, single uncle/aunt, kids, cousins) that we know in DMV actually did remarkably better because there were many helping hands to take care of things. Also, SAHMs with older kids and telecommuting DH were in a better situation. Single parents or people whose spouses were not with them while they took care of kids, home and their job had it very tough. Since nothing could be outsourced - childcare, food, cleaning, it was incredibly hard. My niece was coping with being alone with her newborn as her husband was recovering from mild COVID symptoms. It has been tough, even though my niece is a very strong young woman. If there was testing available and I could be tested negative for being infective, I would have stayed with her. Thankfully, her ILs are dropping food etc for her.

Anonymous wrote:Your kids are weird if they would rather not be at school.

This. It's developmentally healthy for kids to want to be with their peers and not their parents.